2o6 
SOMALILAND 
magnificent fellow. Length from tip of nose to end of tail 
before skinning, 9 feet 3 inches ; after skinning, 11 feet ; 
girth behind shoulder, 43 inches before skinning ; length of 
tail, 33f inches; girth of fore-paw, 12f inches; breadth of 
ear 6 inches ; weight, 402 pounds. I could not very well 
measure the skull, as the brain pan was smashed up entirely. 
His teeth were much worn at the tips, showing that he 
was a very old fellow. In fact, an old man who saw him, 
recognised him at once, and said that he had drunk at these 
wells for the last twenty years. Three things struck me as 
he lay stretched out dead before me : first, the enormous 
breadth of the ear ; secondly, the quantity of ticks which 
infested every portion of his body, and especially the mane ; 
and thirdly, the quantity of particles of wood and thorns 
which had gone in at the foot and worked their way right 
up the legs between the flesh and the skin, some having 
reached the armpits, causing the poor animal a good deal of 
pain, I should imagine. 
DEAD LION AND GUNBEARERS. 
